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ClickHouse Community Meetup in Beijing on October 28, 2018

Interest in ClickHouse among Chinese experts is growing rapidly. It was second ClickHouse Meetup in Beijing this year and the venue was more than full, it could fit only about 170 people out of 500 who signed up and around 2000 more joined the live translation online. Many Chinese companies have already adopted ClickHouse in production and are willing to share their experience.

Welcome word by William Kwok (郭炜), CTO of Analysys, who played a key role in organizing this eventNikolay Kochetov from Yandex demonstrating recent advancements in string processing optimization using LowCardinality feature

Jack Gao (高鹏) from Sina explains their ClickHouse usecase and gives some advice based on their extensive experience with ClickHouse

Chinese developers are also one of the most active worldwide in contributing to ClickHouse source code compared to other countries. Chinese ClickHouse Contributors Awards 2018 ceremony was also part of meetup agenda with the following

张建 (Winter Zhang, zhang2014) received First Place among independent ClickHouse developers in China for 2018, having developed 22 new features, improvements, and fixes in 57 pull requests.

Amos Bird received Second Place among independent ClickHouse developers in China for 2018, having developed 16 new features, improvements, and fixes in 42 pull requests.

李本旺 (sundy-li) received Third Place among independent ClickHouse developers in China for 2018, having developed 6 new features, improvements, and fixes in 11 pull requests.

Special award went to William Kwok (郭炜) active role in developing Chinese ClickHouse Community.